In a large skillet over medium heat, brown the bacon; place in the crock pot. Place stew meat in slow cooker. Mix together the flour, some salt and pepper to taste; pour over meat, and stir to coat meat with flour mixture. Add all the remaining ingredients to the crock pot.

Cover the pot; cook for 4 hours on high, or 6-8 hours on low.

*if omitting bacon, add a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce **Gluten free: 1 Tbsp. of arrowroot or corn starch, rather than the flour

Pizza Pinwheels

1 pkg. Refrigerated thin pizza dough

½ pound thinly sliced salami

½ pound thinly sliced pepperoni

2 cups shredded pizza cheese blend

1 Tbsp. garlic powder

1 Tbsp. Italian seasoning

½ cup parmesan cheese

1 jar pizza sauce for dipping

Stretch dough into a 10×14 rectangle.

Layer salami and pepperoni over dough, leaving a ½ inch edge.

Bake at 350* for 25 min. until golden brown.

Cool. Slice and serve with pizza sauce.

Spooky Swamp Sweets

Create an edible swamp or graveyard using crumbled chocolate cake orcookies for dirt, green tinted vanilla pudding for a bog or swamp, gummy snakes, cookie tombstones, green tinted coconut flakes for moss, cotton candy cobwebs, knot-shaped pretzels for fencing, etc. A small plastic shovel can be used to unearth the treats!